Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting case study of the airline industry

Materiality has been heavily emphasized in different sustainability reporting guidelines to increase the quality of the sustainability reports and report issues that are most aligned with the company’s most significant economic, environmental and social issues. In this thesis materiality analysis...

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Päätekijä: Aryal, Nabin
Muut tekijät: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Business and Economics, Organizational Communication, Taloustieteet, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Aineistotyyppi: Pro gradu
Kieli:eng
Julkaistu: 2017
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description Materiality has been heavily emphasized in different sustainability reporting guidelines to increase the quality of the sustainability reports and report issues that are most aligned with the company’s most significant economic, environmental and social issues. In this thesis materiality analysis in sustainability reporting is analyzed. Firstly, in the theoretical part, the concept of sustainability reporting and materiality is explained along with the provision of materiality in different reporting guidelines. In this research section, fifteen different airlines’ sustainability reports are analyzed to find out how the materiality analysis is carried out in the airlines. The study is focused on airlines because; air transportation is one of the most energy intensive forms of transportation that has major impacts on noise, local air pollution and GHG emission. The thesis concludes that materiality assessment is carried out improperly by most of the airlines and the process is not transparent as very less information is given regarding the assessment process. Similarly, there is need for more inclusive stakeholder involvement in the materiality assessment process. The research findings also showed differences in the number, theme and presentation of identified material issues by the airlines in their sustainability reports. The thesis contributes to the understanding of materiality in nonfinancial reporting and suggests appropriate method to carry out the materiality analysis in sustainability reporting. Further, research on this topic could be conducted by focusing the materiality analysis on single company or taking the stakeholders’ views on the identified material issues.
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title Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
title_full Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
title_fullStr Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
title_full_unstemmed Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
title_short Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting
title_sort materiality assessment in sustainability reporting case study of the airline industry
title_sub case study of the airline industry
title_txtP Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry
topic Sustainability Sustainability reporting GRI Materiality Stakeholders Airlines Materiality matrix Emission Air transportation Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 kestävä kehitys raportointi Global Reporting Initiative sidosryhmät päästöt lentoliikenne
topic_facet 20425 Air transportation Airlines Corporate Environmental Management Emission GRI Global Reporting Initiative Materiality Materiality matrix Stakeholders Sustainability Sustainability reporting Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen kestävä kehitys lentoliikenne päästöt raportointi sidosryhmät
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